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In this Nov. 2014, file photo provided by Fermilab, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman poses for a photo in Batavia, Ill. Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," has died. Ellen Carr Lederman, his wife of 37 years, said her husband died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, at a nursing home in the Idaho town of Rexburg. He was 96. (Reidar Hahn, Fermilab via AP)
October 4, 2018, 1:30 am
Nobel physicist Leon Lederman, who coined phrase ‘God particle,’ dies at 96
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, hailed as a giant in his field, he was forced to sell his Nobel prize to pay for medical bills
By Keith Ridler
Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications centre (or Sesame) in Jordan (Photograph from website).
August 31, 2016, 5:42 pm
Israel, Iran and Pakistan said cooperating on landmark science project
Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians are also working on the Mideast’s new $100m particle accelerator
By Shoshanna Solomon
Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman, speaks at the University of Chicago on February 27, 2002. (AP/Aynsley Floyd)
May 31, 2015, 3:43 am
Facing medical bills, physicist Lederman sells Nobel for $765k
After dementia diagnosis, laureate credited with coining term ‘God particle’ auctions off 1988 prize, fetching fourth highest price ever paid for medal
By AP
Nobel laureate Leon M. Lederman (US Department of Energy via Flickr)
May 28, 2015, 11:08 am
Jewish physicist behind ‘God Particle’ puts Nobel under hammer
Leon Lederman becomes second living prize winner to sell medal, which could be anybody’s for just $325,000
By AP and TOI staff
Production still from 'West Side Story"'(courtesy: United Artists.)
March 7, 2014, 2:20 pm
Spielberg eyes the West Side, Wahlberg’s by the Bay
Plus: naval battles, European hotels, talking dogs and the best Jewish joke of the year (so far) — and the Shin Bet
By Jordan Hoffman
Installing the ATLAS calorimeter in 'Particle Fever' (Courtesy of CERN)
March 6, 2014, 5:00 pm
How to make an exciting film about an improbable collision
In new documentary ‘Particle Fever,’ the international scientific community prepares for its greatest moment in living history
By Jordan Hoffman
Illustration from the new book 'Tiny Dynamo,' which promotes the most important and interesting innovations to emerge from Israel. (photo credit: Courtesy Megan Flood)
April 15, 2013, 5:24 am
65 years of innovation, from Rummikub to the ‘God Particle’
A timeline chronicling vital, fascinating breakthroughs produced by Israelis in the lifespan of the modern state
By Marcella Rosen
July 15, 2012, 11:16 am
Does the ‘God particle’ shed light on the Creation story?
The Higgs boson discovery is illuminating, but all conclusions are premature, an Israeli physicist says
By David Shamah
Illustration of a particle collision (Photo credit: Courtesy Weizmann Institute)
July 4, 2012, 6:41 pm
While not the fathers, Israeli scientists were uncles in detection of that ‘Goddamn particle’ — the Higgs boson
A Weizmann team helped develop particle detectors, a Technion prof designed a key experiment, and several researchers were involved in building the accelerator
By David Shamah
A wall painting at the Atlas experiment site at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. (Anja Niedringhaus/AP)
July 3, 2012, 2:07 am
Scientists find God (particle)
Discovery may confirm the primary plank of a theory that could restructure the understanding of why matter has mass
By John Heilprin and Seth Borenstein
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